Share this year's blooms with us... be sure to identify what variety so we can start our personal 2018 Wish Lists!
sylviap Jun 16, 2017 7:21 AM PDT
Name: Sylvia West Sacramento, CA Zone 9b
Used the wrong lens, but here are some of the first:
HH Tangerine - seems to become more orange as it ages
HH Exotica
L'ancresse
Verrone's Sandra J -begins orange but as it ages turns to a lovely salmon? apricot? Long-lasting. I really like this one.
These blooms were produced during fairly cool weather.
todgor Jun 16, 2017 7:48 AM PDT
Name: Tod Gordon West Caldwell, NJ
Beautiful! Trying to wrap my head around having blooms this early, must be a long season!
teddahlia Jun 16, 2017 9:16 AM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
Verrrone's Sandra J has so many upward facing ray florets that in the PNW when it rains onto a fully ripe Sandra J., the weight of the water snaps off the stem. If you go out and lift the broken flower after it happens, you can feel the weight of the water in the blossom.
sylviap Jun 16, 2017 9:29 AM PDT
Name: Sylvia West Sacramento, CA Zone 9b
There are several more in bloom but the pictures were not worth posting.
vikingcraftsman Jun 16, 2017 1:01 PM PDT
Well thanks for what you did post. My mouth is watering for some of my dahlias to bloom. It well be a late season for me this year. I relied on mother nature and she is cranky this year.
luvflowers Jun 16, 2017 1:51 PM PDT
Wow Sylvia, those are lovely early blooms!
FLflowerboy Jun 16, 2017 5:43 PM PDT
Name: Jon George Gainesville, FL ...crazy enough to grow dahlias in
Great dahlias, Sylvia! Your VSJ is drool worthy!
FLflowerboy Jun 16, 2017 6:04 PM PDT
Name: Jon George Gainesville, FL ...crazy enough to grow dahlias in
AC Conan, Crazy Ivan, Snoho Doris
Crazy Ivan
FLflowerboy Jun 16, 2017 6:18 PM PDT
Name: Jon George Gainesville, FL ...crazy enough to grow dahlias in
Jomanda
Formby Crest
Tahoma Dark Delight
FLflowerboy Jun 16, 2017 6:24 PM PDT
Name: Jon George Gainesville, FL ...crazy enough to grow dahlias in
HH Rudolph
HH Spreckles
HH Tangerine (taller this year!)
FLflowerboy Jun 16, 2017 6:31 PM PDT
Name: Jon George Gainesville, FL ...crazy enough to grow dahlias in
Flip Flop
Crazy 4 Martha
AC Susi
Crazy 4 David (AC Susi taller pink behind)
sylviap Jun 16, 2017 7:01 PM PDT
Name: Sylvia West Sacramento, CA Zone 9b
Nice! And now I have the first dahlia on my 2018 list: Crazy Ivan
mandolls Jun 17, 2017 8:11 AM PDT
Name: Geof WI
wow - great to see so many! Thanks John & Sylvia!
luvflowers Jun 18, 2017 1:50 AM PDT
Jon, your flower farm looks fantastic !
DarcyD Jun 18, 2017 5:34 AM PDT
Name: Darcy D Green Oaks, Illinois
sylviap Jun 20, 2017 11:15 AM PDT
Name: Sylvia West Sacramento, CA Zone 9b
Many new blooms. The heat is forcing them open very quickly. I feel like I'm pretty careful with my labeling, but a few of these are markedly different than the picture on the website. Hopefully cool weather will produce a truer color. Usually heat only affects the light blush colors. I've never noticed a strong orange turning to yellow.
Bloomquist Carol
Frizzy Lizzy
Sellwood Glory - an unexpectedly generous bonus in a trade! So uncooperative! Facing its stake with two branches also in front. The heat has had no effect at all on this plant or the bloom.
Tahoma Flare
Tahoma Orange Slice
I really thought BQ Carol, Tahoma Flare, and Tahoma Orange Slice would be a more vivid orange.
I keep trying to get a decent picture of HH Sunny Boy, but like Sellwood's Glory, the bloom is in a difficult place. It is the brightest yellow in the yard and is very heat tolerant.
teddahlia Jun 20, 2017 11:28 AM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
Sellwood Glory is a classic dahlia. And it has the curse of the purple dahlia too. It was originated as a sport(About 1950) from a flower called Ballego's Glory(from the 1930s!) in PNWGal's neighborhood(well very close). Sellwood is a very old neighborhood in Portland where due to gentrification a nice 1200 square foot house built in the 1920s-1930s in average condition on a small city lot is about 500K.
edewitt Jun 20, 2017 11:37 AM PDT
Name: Eric DeWitt Mountainair, NM
teddahlia wrote:Sellwood Glory is a classic dahlia. And it has the curse of the purple dahlia too. It was originated as a sport(About 1950) from a flower called Ballego's Glory(from the 1930s!) in PNWGal's neighborhood(well very close). Sellwood is a very old neighborhood in Portland where due to gentrification a nice 1200 square foot house built in the 1920s-1930s in average condition on a small city lot is about 500K.
So just slightly more than a Sellwood Glory tuber then, eh?
sylviap Jun 20, 2017 12:23 PM PDT
Name: Sylvia West Sacramento, CA Zone 9b
Maybe I can trade it for a house? I did not realize what a special treat it was until recently.
